vicinae-takoba

maintainer kurojs · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
LOW
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Why flagged The npx command builds the project's own source from a legitimate GitHub repository, which is a normal part of the build process; the package installs only static JavaScript assets and data files, with no remote code execution or malicious payload.

Triggered rules

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 90%): The npx command builds the project's own source from a legitimate GitHub repository, which is a normal part of the build process; the package installs only static JavaScript assets and data files, with no remote code execution or malicious payload.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)
MEDIUM npx/bunx/deno executes a remote package remote_code_tool

`npx`/`bunx`/`pnpm dlx`/`deno run <url>` downloads AND runs a remote package at build time — the moral equivalent of piping a download into a shell. Severity downgraded: Node.js consumer context.

  • PKGBUILD:22 npx vici build -o dist

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: kuro <kuro@kuro.moe>
2# Contributor: kuro <kuro@kuro.moe>
3
4pkgname=vicinae-takoba
5pkgver=0.2.0
6pkgrel=1
7pkgdesc="Japanese dictionary, translator, TTS, and Anki integration for launchers — search Jotoba, translate on the fly, add cards to Anki"
8arch=('any')
9url="https://github.com/kurojs/Takoba"
10license=('MIT')
11depends=('vicinae-bin' 'nodejs' 'npm')
12makedepends=('git' 'npm')
13source=("Takoba-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/kurojs/Takoba/archive/v$pkgver.tar.gz")
14sha256sums=('SKIP')
15install=takoba.install
16
17build() {
18 cd "$srcdir/Takoba-$pkgver"
19 npm install
20 node scripts/copy-shim.js vicinae
21 node scripts/build-worker.js
22 npx vici build -o dist
23 node scripts/copy-dict.js dist
24}
25
26package() {
27 cd "$srcdir/Takoba-$pkgver"
28 install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/vicinae-takoba"
29 install -Dm644 dist/takoba.js "$pkgdir/usr/share/vicinae-takoba/takoba.js"
30 install -Dm644 package.json "$pkgdir/usr/share/vicinae-takoba/package.json"
31 install -Dm644 assets/icon.png "$pkgdir/usr/share/vicinae-takoba/icon.png"
32 install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/vicinae-takoba/assets"
33 install -Dm644 assets/icon.png "$pkgdir/usr/share/vicinae-takoba/assets/icon.png"
34 install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/vicinae-takoba/dict"
35 install -m644 dist/dict/*.dat.gz "$pkgdir/usr/share/vicinae-takoba/dict/"
36 install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/vicinae-takoba/scripts"
37 install -Dm644 dist/furigana-worker.cjs "$pkgdir/usr/share/vicinae-takoba/scripts/furigana-worker.cjs"
38}
39

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2026-08-03 00:08:14 LOW 2
2026-08-02 00:16:08 LOW 2
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2026-07-21 00:24:15 LOW 3
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